Delayed, but husain haQQani gets pak passport
WASHINGTON: Former Pakistani ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, said on Friday that he was being forced to give up his Pakistani citizenship and that’s why his passport was delayed. Haqqani had applied for a new passport several months ago, after his old passport expired, but he received it on 25 August. Haqqani has been living in the United States for more than a decade but retains his Pakistani citizenship and travels on a Pakistani passport. In a statement to the media, Haqqani said that the passport he received at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington on 25 August was dated 9 June, showing that it was issued almost three months before the embassy gave it to him. “The Interior Ministry, Islamabad, had also informed me that it was dispatched to Washington in June,” he wrote. The normal process of issuance of passport requires the embassy to inform the applicant once it receives the passport as after the introduction of the new computerised filing system, passports for overseas Pakistanis are issued in Islamabad.